IVY LEAGUERS TEAR PROFESSOR JONES TO PIECES OVER POORLY WRITTEN COMPLAINT AGAINST ABOVE THE LAW BLOG

11-4-2009 UPDATE, via Above the Law:
Breaking: Jones v. Minkin Dismissed!!!(Plaintiff voluntarily dismisses lawsuit against ATL.)

Apparently, Professor Jones tired of the 24 hours of verbal pummeling that he was receiving from all corners of the Blogosphere and saw the handwriting on the wall regarding where his suit was headed--i.e the world's most frivolous lawsuits bin. Anyhow, its over.


In case you missed the major blawg story of the day (and probably the year) University of Miami law professor D. Marvin Jones —who made the pages of this blog when he was arraigned on charges that he allegedly solicited a hooker—has the law Blogosphere’s panties in a twist over his lawsuit against the legal blog Above the Law and its founding editor David Lat.

Adding an additional layer of hilarity to the already embarrassing circumstances of professor Jones’ arraignment on criminal charges is the astounding fact that a law professor would file a federal court complaint riddled with spelling and grammatical errors (he misspells the President’s name in the fist paragraph and goes downhill from there), let alone that attempts to set forth a legal theory that the Supreme Court of his own home State of Florida refused to recognize just last year.

We are not big fans of the self described “most prestigious law school discussion board in the world”--AutoAdmit, but we could not make our way through even part of this thread without laughing so hard we nearly peed our pants.

Suffice it to say that the comments were, well, a tad harsh.

As once commenter posted:

“Before I read [professor Jones’ complaint], I expected to respond to your post by saying that pleadings are the one place where you can write like shit and get away with it. “But after reading that festering shit pile, I agree that UM should be deeply embarrassed.”

And another:

"This complaint is truly a disgrace, and I am not even talking about fucking typos. Apparently, he really believes that statements such as "Or Donald Marvin Jones." are sentences. This complaint is truly truly terrible. I hope he wrote it while completely intoxicated and then put it in a mailbox to the court for fling, forgetting that he had done so and leaving him no opportunity for sober reflection. It is the only excuse."

Our favorite:

"dear god. how the hell did this guy become a law professor"

Now go, read, laugh, cry. We did.